According to an SEC filing, NASDAQ notified Marathon Patent Group that, due to the departure of Edward Kovalik and Christopher Robichaud from the Company’s board of directors, the company no longer complies with independent director and audit committee requirements of its listing rules. Marathon will be delisted if it does not submit a plan to regain compliance within 45 days. Marathon’s press release follows:

Marathon Patent Group Receives Deficiency Letter from NASDAQ Related to Two Director Resignations and Announces Plans to Regain Compliance

LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2018, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Marathon Patent Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:MARA) (“Marathon” or the “Company”), today announced that on July 10, 2018, it was notified by the NASDAQ Stock Market that it no longer complies with the independent director and audit committee requirements of Listing Rules 5605(b)(1) and 5605(c)(2). The Company plans to regain compliance through appointment of two new independent directors. In the interim, the Company’s common stock will continue to trade on NASDAQ.

The Company has 45 calendar days to submit a plan to regain compliance, and if Nasdaq accepts the Company’s plan, Nasdaq can grant an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the fiscal year end, or until January 7, 2019, to regain compliance.

Nasdaq has also notified the Company that it no longer complies with Nasdaq’s compensation committee requirement as set forth in Listing Rule 5605(d)(2) and will provide the Company a cure period in order to regain compliance as follows:

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until the earlier of the Company’s next annual shareholders’ meeting or June 28, 2019; or

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if the next annual shareholders’ meeting is held before December 26, 2018, then the Company must evidence compliance no later than December 26, 2018.

Merrick Okamoto, Marathon’s Chairman and CEO stated, “As announced previously, we have already commenced a search for replacement independent directors and look forward to announcing them upon the positions being filled.”

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